HURIWA condemns unlawful detention of 15-year-old Chidera by DSS

By Ogaga Ariemu

Civil rights advocacy group, Human Right Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, and the international community to pressurise Department of State Service (DSS) to release 15-year-old Miss Chidera Amaefula, Imo State indigene from unlawful detention.

In a statement to Nigerian NewsDirect on Monday, HURIWA urged Aisha Buhari to play the role of the mother of the nation by calling on her husband to respect child rights and order the release of the girl child who has been arrested by the Department of State Services as alleged by her relations.

HURIWA has also condemned President Muhammadu Buhari flagrant abuses of the civil liberty of Imo State people via Hope Uzodinma led administration and called on Right thinking citizens of Nigeria globally to speak out and condemn this oppressive policies in Imo State.

It stated that, “This is a clear case of child abduction and forced imprisonment which is absolutely unjustifiable under a constitutional democracy even as the Rights group said the denial of her Right to the dignity of the human person, her arbitrary arrests and illegal detention and the denial of her Right to liberty which are guaranteed by a plethora of provisions in chapter 4 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria of 1999 as amended, is despicable, reprehensible, abominable, illegal and unconstitutional.”

The Rights group therefore calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to call off this range of dehumanising agenda of forcefully depriving Igbo people of their fundamental liberties.